poor/sad/sorry excuse for

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: a poor example of

He's a sad excuse for a father.

This is a poor excuse for a term paper.

That pile of junk is a sorry excuse for a car!

Examples of poor/sad/sorry excuse for in a Sentence

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Translation error is a poor excuse for a player who's not new to the league. —Ali Rampling, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025

Anthony Gigantiello Go with her Brooklyn: Donald Trump is a poor excuse for a human being. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024

Stuck at your desk, working from home, eating a sad excuse for a midday meal? —Joan Niesen, Washington Post, 18 June 2024

Now our once-proud, now poor excuse for a union has chosen to divide us. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024

But in my opinion, the difficulty of these challenges would be a very poor excuse for not facing up to them. —IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2017

Joe Biden, John Fetterman and their loved one's should not waste a moment on Carlson's passive-aggressive, bullying nonsense, a poor excuse for a human being, with no excuse for being so. —Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023

But the activists find this to be a poor excuse for drilling in places where people live, and insist that putting an end to drilling here can help lead to the end of drilling elsewhere. —Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2022

Prince Charles is a depressingly poor excuse for a future king. —Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021